The​LETTERBOXING Game

Welcome to letterboxing!This centuries-old game, first invented in Dartmoor, England, is a combination of orienteering, treasure hunting and hiking. It's a game with fans and followers all over the country, and we're excited to join the letterboxing community this season.

​For some letterboxing history, as well as articles on how the game is played, check out the following websites:

These websites also post clues for letterboxes hidden across the country. Just search any city and you'll see a list of boxes within 150 miles. Then, start hunting!

Now, for our letterboxes.Five boxes are hidden throughout the town of Riverhead, and we challenge you to find them! Follow the clues and grab the following supplies before you head out:

Comfortable shoesYou'll be out and about, walking along paths and through the woods. Enjoy the scenery and leave your environment just as you found it! (That includes the letterboxes! Once you've found a box and stamped in, please hide it exactly as it was; we want future players to find it, too.)

A logbookThis will be where you record your stamps. Each letterbox you find will have its own personal stamp inside. Your goal, when you find the box, is to "stamp in": record the box's stamp in your logbook. You can make any notes next to your stamps that you want, so you can remember where, when or how you found the letterbox.

An inkpadMost likely, the letterboxes you find will have a stamp but no ink pad. (Bad weather has a way of ruining them.) Be prepared by bringing your own, in as many sizes and colors you'd like. The more variety you have, the more artistic your logbook will become!

Your own personal stampThe majority of letterboxers make their own signature stamp, as an expression of their individuality. You can hand-carve it or custom order it--just make sure it says something about who you are. Each letterbox will have a logbook inside; this is how you show us that you found it! Stamp into the box's logbook using your personal stamp, and stamp into your own logbook by using the box's stamp.​A cool trail nameEvery letterboxer has a trail name. Pick an alias that will identify you to others. Green Tortuga...Three FLAmigos...Mudflinginfools...these are some of your fellow letterboxers around the country.

A letterboxer's kit: logbook, ink pad, signature stamp

BOX 1"All's Well That Ends Well"

Find your way to River Road and head west.​Just before you reach an avenue named after the Nutmeg State, look north for a clearing in the woods. Don't blink or you'll miss a deadly surprise. Sixteen of them, to be exact.

Find someone who took the final "step" just two months after celebrating a birthday. From here, take 24 steps of your own in a SE direction. You'll land on a mismatched pair--and the first letterbox. Remember to stamp both your notebook and the one inside the box!

When you find a box, please leave everything the way you found it! (Including, of course, the box itself). If you need to remember something inside the box for later, please just take a photo or write it down.